UPDATE 2024: Corebird is discontinued and does NOT WORKS ANYMORE!!
Never heard of Corebird? It’s a native GTK+ Twitter client for Linux which has a modern and responsive design that looks kinda similar to the official Twitter app for Mac.
Corebird is a free and open source project created by Timm Bäder, AKA “baedert”. It carries the whole essential twitter features, such as Streaming of Tweets, Mentions/Notifications, Favorites, Direct Messaging, Lists, Filters and an integrated search.
With the advantage of the latest GTK+3 features, the application makes use of the new Header Bars. With the gstreamer and gstreamer plugins, corebird allows to view any videos (i.e. no vines and no twitter gifs).
The application is well intergrated with with GNOME Desktop. It supports GNOME Shell Application Menu and displays the number of Twitter notifications on the lockscreen.
Screenshots (ubuntu 14.04 64-bit):
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Install Corebird in Ubuntu via PPA:
I’ve successfully built this twitter client into my PPA, available for Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04.
1. (For Ubuntu 14.04 only) Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one to add the required PPAs:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
2. (For both Ubuntu 14.10 & 14.04) Add my PPA and install corebird:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/corebird sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install corebird
Or grab the .deb package directly from HERE.
Once installed, remove Gnome 3 Staging PPA via:
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
Thanks.
Even though I added the Gnome packages, I get this error:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you haverequested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
corebird : Depends: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.11.2) but 3.10.8~3+qiana is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
You should be able to install libgtk-3-0 (3.12.2) in Ubuntu 14.04 from Gnome3 Staging PPA:
You can search gtk+3.0 from the launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3-staging/+packages
my libgtk is already newest version, i’m using Linux Mint 17 qiana. Please help why it isnt work out. thanks
Sorry, the Ubuntu 14.04 build in the PPA is based on the Gnome 3, and Gnome 3 Staging PPA. It works on my 14.04 64-bit laptop, but not tested in Mint.
I installed Corebird on Ubuntu 14.10 via this PPA, but it doesn’t work well: Timeline windows have transparent background, so I can’t read.
screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/UgOXTdu.png
This is a bug due to the Unity overlay scroll bars. A workaround is to use the old fat scroll bars by launching the twitter client via below command:
hello Ji m first thank u for all ur info but i want ask u i have ubuntu 14.04 64bit using unity desktop so how can install corebird and corebird need gnome 3 ? should be change desktop from unity to gnome or no ?
thank u
Corebird depends on some gnome 3 libraries, but you don’t need to install the Gnome3 Desktop, though it looks better in gnome-shell.
Again corebird needs the Gnome3 Staging PPA for the higher GTK version for Ubuntu 14.04. But the PPA is not stable for use, use it at your own risk!
Hello Ji! Any possibility to have 1.1 in 14.04? I tried to install every dependency and every third partner program and I can’t get in
Ubuntu 15.10 (or Ubuntu 15.04 with gnome PPA) is required. Please remove those dependency PPAs after because they contain unstable packages that may break you system.